Zimbabwe's government says it intends to end state subsidies for black-owned commercial farms resettled under its controversial land reform policy. Farmers allocated prime land over the past seven years should by now have enough experience to be self-financing, the Central Bank governor said. New farmers have been warned they could lose land if it is not used properly. Zimbabwe's food production has plummeted since land reforms that saw thousands of white-owned farms seized. The US-based Famine Early Warning System warned in January that Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of southern Africa, was facing a maize shortfall of some 700,000 tonnes this year. Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono told a farmers' meeting that funds for the commercial farmers would be stopped at the end of this year. ... http://news.bbc.co.uk

Being forced to vacate his FEMA trailer — even if the reason was to safeguard his health — struck Allsee Tobias as yet another failure of the federal government to help Hurricane Katrina victims."They know how to put me out, but they don't know how to help me out. That's how I look at it," said Tobias, who lost his New Orleans home in post-Katrina flooding and then was told to leave his trailer over the weekend."Pack and pray. That's what they told us," he said.The Federal Emergency Management Agency abruptly closed down the mobile home park where Tobias and other displaced hurricane victims were living because of ongoing problems with raw sewage and periodic power outages....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,256634,00.html

Wall Street managed to stabilize itself in early trading Monday although investors remained nervous about nagging mortgage default concerns and tumbling stock markets abroad. The major indexes fluctuated in a narrow range as investors tried to size up where the market was headed. Concerns about losses over soured subprime loans — loans to customers with poor credit ratings — were one of the many factors behind Wall Street's selloff last week. Those worries were rekindled Monday when HSBC Holdings PLC, Europe's largest bank, said its 2006 earnings rose 5 percent but that it suffered $10.6 billion on losses on bad loans from its U.S. subprime mortgage operations. Meanwhile, a rising yen added to concerns about an erosion in the yen carry trade, which refers to the process of borrowing yen to acquire assets with greater yields in other currencies. A slowdown could hurt liquidity worldwide. By Monday morning, the U.S. dollar fell to about 115.9 yen, ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/05/business/main2535005.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2535005

More than half of all those arrested in Britain under anti-terrorism legislation since the September 11 2001 attacks have been released without any charge, official government figures showed on Monday. No details were given of the ethnic background of those arrested; but some Muslim groups argue they have come under more pressure since July 2005 bombings on London's transport system by four British Islamists which left 52 people dead.Senior police officers have said that they often have to carry out operations earlier than they would like, leading to some innocent people being arrested.Home Office data revealed that 1,126 people had been held under security laws between the 9/11 attacks and the end of 2006, with another 40 detained as part of anti-terrorism operations. Of these, 652 were released without charge....http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070305/ts_nm/britain_terrorism_dc

A man fatally shot his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in her townhouse bedroom before committing suicide outside, police said. Police found Debra Smaniotto, 43, and Bruce Bertoldi, 47, dead inside the master bedroom of her two-story townhouse Sunday night, said Kenneth Tomaso, chief of detectives for the Cumberland County prosecutor's office. The man believed to be the shooter, Edgar Carrasquillo, 45, was found dead outside near his truck, police said. Smaniotto and Carrasquillo were romantically involved in the past, police said. "All three parties were in some kind of romantic relationship. It may have been a relation that had ended," police Lt. Tom Ulrich said. ...http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2924154

China has hit out at Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian after he made a strongly pro-independence speech on Sunday. Mr Chen said Taiwan should pursue independence, write a new constitution and change its official name from "Republic of China" to Taiwan. China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing said anyone wanting to split Taiwan from the mainland was a "criminal". The row came as China opened its annual session of parliament and announced a hike in defence spending. Mr Chen, in a speech to a pro-independence group on Sunday, said: "Taiwan should be independent". "Taiwan is a country whose sovereignty lies outside the People's Republic of China," he added, referring to China by its formal name. ...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6418561.stm